flip
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The researchers also found that a planetary tipping point hundreds of millions of years ago caused the global oxygen distribution to flip.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
Newer, agentic AI platforms flip this on its head.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
It buys these companies to overhaul them and keep them, not flip them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
One asylum seeker sprinted into the courthouse, hours after her early morning hearing appointment in early June, her flip flops barely holding together as she frantically ran up and down the hallway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
"And if I have to stare at one more marshmallow I'll flip!"
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
Porkchop, a turtle rescued from the river last year, lost a flipper after a fishing line severely constricted the limb.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
This one, a 200-plus-pounder named Meatloaf, similarly suffered a flipper injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
"I picked it up and thought I saw a movement in one flipper, so I carried it back to the campsite".
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
Ninety-percent of her flipper was necrotic, and veterinary staff promptly removed the dead tissue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
When it turned I reached for its hind flipper, but as soon as I touched it I recoiled in horror.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier’s.
From Time ● Jan. 27, 2015
His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, sitting on an aluminum bench in one of her many-tiered patios, she flips between a blank page and another in which a serpent curves across a cerulean plane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Either the system remains unchanged, which is the behavior of bosons, or the system flips sign, which is what happens with fermions.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
“However, by the early 2030s this ratio flips, requiring Woodside’s focus and capability to grow in the International division,” UBS says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Ten-year yields are just starting to roll over as daily momentum flips negative.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
My stomach flips, and my palms get sweaty.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
The building’s solar array had a shutdown switch that firefighters flipped when the most recent blaze began, according to the fire department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The politician who flipped the script on how to confront legal jeopardy was the late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who rose to power in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The momentum flipped when Gauff capitalised on a poor game from Pegula, breaking to love and maintaining her composure to battle back from 0-30 down as she served out the set to level the match.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari said Friday that he’s flipped his view on interest rates over the past three months.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Andre and I went to story time while Camille browsed the chapter books and Dad flipped through magazines at one of the big oak tables.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
A few years ago, he was flipping burgers in L.A., working at Starbucks, and taking whatever jobs he could find in the film or TV industry to make ends meet.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the run-up to Emmy nomination morning — and, honestly, at any other time of the year — you may have heard super-producer Taylor Sheridan preemptively flipping the bird at Emmy voters and critics.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Pittsburgh Pirate Casey Stengel flipping a bird —from under his cap—before a hostile Ebbets Field crowd in 1919.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Sasaki’s only clean inning, the third, was made possible by catcher Dalton Rushing’s successful challenge of a called ball four against Tatís, flipping a walk into a strikeout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
Outside, Elena is on the same spot of the bench, flipping to the next page in her book.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
